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Comment by dieselgirl

For those attempting to try this guy, if you're a hunter you can stop reading here and solo him. If you're anything else, you can 2-man him easily. He has some sort of frost armour, therefore if you melee him you'll get chilled. Roughly around 12k HP and 40k mana

You can use the Azsharite sword to weaken him from the start and he'll be considerably more vulnerable and do less damage.

Comment by Gedden

Actually unkillable if your not on the quest. Just says at 1% and never dies.

Comment by Dissonance

I was in this mine while looking for Ore nodes. I came across this named fellow, and searched him up.

Given the first comment about him being easily soloable by hunters, I decided to give it a try. Even if the second comment was correct about him being invulnerable if you weren't on the quest was true, I could easily feign death, being level 61 and all.

So I sent in my pet, a level 61 Ravager. All was fine until he critted my pet for almost 3000 damage, killing it; then focused his Fireball attacks on me. I quickly found out that he is immune to all silencing effects, and snare effects as well.

At level 61, I got him down to about 20% health. At that point, I had 200 health, and I feigned.

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Comment by Veremann

If you're a Warrior and think "I don't need the weapon I'll just shield bash him to interrupt spells"...well, I learned that thinking that way is baaad :P Definitely use the quest weapon - shield bashes don't do squat.

I'd assume the same goes for Rogue kicks, etc.

Comment by claws

you need the q to kill him and the sta right ??cause yo must kill him whit the staff or do you need to kill the others furst

Comment by claws

i cant kill him ..

Comment by november

For those of you who are wondering: Archmage Allastarj can be found in the Serpent's Coil mine, right at the end of the mine in the leftmost of the two tunnels. He stands under an awning near the end of the tunnel (location 66,29). If you are lucky, a Solid Chest will be right next to the awning.

And yes, I can confirm that Archmage Allastarj is immune to the usual Rogue bag of tricks such as Kick, Kidney Shot etc.

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Comment by anarchycave

If your around level 70 this guy is great to train weapon skills.He never dies and doesn't hit very hard at all.

Comment by silsil

Actually it's 1hp not 1%.

Comment by Dole

So I was around 1000hp for the entire fight and it was all going well, we fought for like 10 mins and I just stayed at 1000 health as a level 69 Paladin. And then just out of nowhere he casts FIRE BLAST. It hit me for 1500... What is that? >_>

Comment by mahony

Still works at 3.1.0

Comment by Bendik

3.1.1 confirmed. Very easy to train at for a level 80 paladin. Put on seal of light and it will outheal his damage.

Comment by Xanskar

He is immune to aoe as well. In fact, AoE doesn't even show up. Use arcane explosion or bladestorm on him and it just won't say anything, not even immune.

Comment by yangman

confirmed 3.1.2

Comment by dainer09

confirmed 3.1.3

Comment by Pointblank

As of patch 3.1.2 this guy still will train weapon skills.

Comment by Uinri

IMO, the easiest of the three bosses you fight in this quest.

I soloed it as a 62 ret pally and all I did was spam the Felcurse weapon. It interrupts basically all his spells and prevents him from casting his strongest. All I then did is go through the regular rotation of spells. Did not use any items or healing spells.

Comment by nataku87

*cough* afk weapon skill mob *cough*

Comment by ps2freak6678

No longer can be used to level weapon skill

Comment by metalspawned

For casters out there who are annoyed with the magic immunity, try spells that were added after Vanilla. As a mage, I found that these mobs were not immune to BC-spells like Ice Lance and Water Elemental.

Comment by donotpay

Wish I had read this first. Had him at 1% and I was getting close to toast (8%). By the time I realized he wasn't going to die it was too late. Kinda bites knowing I really had him beat (especially since this was my first death...wah, I want my mommy).

Comment by Owiot

At first I thought he was Archmage All Star.

Comment by Crystallyne

Okay... While out Mining for Thorium in Blasted Lands I came to one node in particular that is right next to this guy. I didn't realize he was there and was stunned when I died twice to the mobs that congregated around me as I was only after the node. I finally took my time and approached carefully and only THEN did I realize this guy was an elite mob, and he is the reason why I was being slaughtered.

Thanks a lot Blizzard. REALLY good job putting a Thorium node right next to the unkillable elite mob. }: (

Comment by flopfaint

Whitemane's long lost brother?

Comment by jbrown744

Im skilling up on him right now, not sure when they changed it back or if all of these people just don't want their secret grinding npc not known so there is no competition.

Looks like you can't just leave you character on auto attack, i have to do special attacks in order to get any skill. Still he is unkillable so there is at least that.

Comment by killmurlocs

Can he be enslaved?

Comment by Undaunt

Post Cata he no longer drops the Amulet of Allistarj. If you're looking for it, it's located in the same cave the archmage was (Serpent's Coil). First left in teh tunnel and near a Crude Brazier. No not that kind of crude brazier.